[GLLUG] Mandrake 9.1/PPC

[Mike Szumlinski]

Well, I can now see the bootstrap partition that it says it needs, but 
it can't be formatted to fit whatever info is needed.  I'm about to 
give up on this.  I don't have a cd around that has pdisk and on OS on 
it, I was hoping drak format (or whatever its called) would do it for 
me.
On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 12:50 PM, Sean wrote:

> Did you try leaving a 1M of free space at the beginning of the disk?
> before your first partition? If that doesnt work then try an hfs
> partition. BootX is essentially a small Blessed System file that lives 
> on
> its own partition.
>
> Also use like pdisk/fdisk to make sure there arent any extra partitions
> floating around, HFS seems to like to put drivers and stuff on 
> partitions.